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Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign. It aims to deepen Christians engagement with the poor and challenge leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, halving absolute global poverty by 2015.
Prayer undergirds all our actions and during 2010 we want to affirm the importance of listening to God, seeking his wisdom and relying on his strength and guidance.
The day of 10 October 2010 (10.10.10) marks the two thirds point of the Millennium Goals. Micah Challenge organisations around the world are calling for that to be a Global Day of Prayer for justice for the poor of the world. We have prepared a special prayer, and it is our hope that 100 million people around the world will use this prayer on 10.10.10.
Introduction to the prayer
Ten years ago, nations of the world promised to halve global poverty by 2015. Christians across the world believe that this promise should be met – it is a commitment we cannot forget. We can take action as individuals, communities and nations to see the promise fulfilled. On this day around the world, we can join with millions of other Christians who are all praying to see our promises to the poor become a reality.
Let’s pray with humility and persistence to see that justice is done.
Dear God, you are eternally good, true and just. You lift up the lowly and scatter the proud. You fill the hungry with good things and send the rich away with empty hands.
You remind leaders to be devoted to humble service and to protect the rights of the helpless. Help us to show your love, truth and justice to our generation. Equip us by your Spirit with energy and dedication to serve the poor. Give us courage to speak out for the rights of all who are denied justice. Inspire us to act so that our leaders respond to the cries of the poor.
We thank you for your promise of salvation and life. Help us to keep our promise to the poor, so that we can bring hope and blessing to our world. Lead and protect us as we stand for righteousness and justice, so that all peoples in all places praise and honour you. Amen
Prayer for the Millennium Development Goals
The link below enables you to download a meditation and prayer resource based on spending time praying for each of the Millennium Development Goals. This interactive prayer activity is designed to allow people to take time to reflect and be engaged with the issues of global poverty in a physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual way, bringing them to God in prayer. People may reflect at their own pace, and have the freedom to interact with as many activities as they wish.
It is helpful to play some appropriate music from another culture to set the mood for people to reflect. Set up each prayer activity on a separate piece of cloth around the edges of the room. Prayer activities are centered around each Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and include the following:
- short story and image
- the goals and indicators for each MDG
- the instructions for each prayer activity, which have a short anecdote or facts with accompanying prayer activity.
- the objects to interact with the corresponding Bible verses for people to reflect on; the Bible verses can be cut out and placed on the corresponding activities
- prayers relating to each MDG
Possible follow up activities:
- a resource station for people to sign the Micah Call, take postcards and other resources
- discussion in pairs/triplets about what impacted them particularly while interacting with the prayer stations, then pray together
- planning for action – what can the group do together to get involved in the Micah Challenge?
Download "Praying The Micah Challenge" from here.
Other Prayer Resources
There are other prayer resources on our site. Some of these are PowerPoint or PDF files available from our Downloads section.
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